Tales from inside Big Tech
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I've worked for big tech companies for roughly 15 years, is still not as bad as all that yet but not far from it. A few pronouns freaks have started showing up in meetings but is not full lets talk about your sexuality crap.
Is not just that diversity hires tend to be extremely bad or unwilling to work. Or that white people are sometimes bullied out of discussions. This happened to me a while back, when I still had faith in the system, I foolishly thought my manager would back me up but he threw me under the bass in an instant.
The diversity hires are very angry, short fused and incredibly annoying to work with. You have to stay as clear as possible from them and what ever they are working on or they will find a way to blame you for what ever mistake of delay. They also tend to be very sweet with people outside their direct working project, I find this very disgusting.
Things really go sour once they get in management positions, they want to make their mark on the project but have no skill, no understanding and no willingness to communicate with those working on the project rather then radical change something for the sake of changing it. This causes a large portion to leave the project to other projects.
Tech is a mess but I think youtube or google are a bit ahead of other companies in term of full blown woknes.
I've been slowly subverting and red-pilling my boss over the past 2 years of my employment (it helps that he's listening to Jocko Willink and focusing on personal responsibility), and I was able to use this to come to him about the fact that one of the new managers he hired is pre-disposed towards racialism.
You know me, I actually tried to rationalize it as "she has pride towards the accomplishment of being the first person in her family, and community, to go to college, and she's misconstruing her hard work for an inherent or systemic issue". But I was able to use that approach to make him realize: yeah, no, she can't be pushing racialism over merit.
It's a hard conversation to have with minorities without coming across like a lunatic, even if I'm right: "This a black national socialism". But if you're gentle and respectful enough, they'll no the direction they need to push people in. I think we're even getting her to turn around on some issues. There's a heavy push on personal development that I and my manager have been trying to make on the rest of our team, and there's another black woman on staff who had a strong father figure, and also pushes personal responsibility a lot to... so I think it's starting to rub off on her.
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Hmmm. Maybe I am as bad as I'm labeled.
subvert all the racialists